Welcome to Lauer's Flowers 2021
Dear Iris Friends,
It’s spring and we are entering into a new iris season. I hope you are as excited as I am. Last year had its issue as you are well aware of but the iris season wasn't one of them. I hope you were able to enjoy it as I was. I am really excited to see the new seedlings and old favorites bloom. I have four new tall bearded this year plus a border bearded for you to enjoy. We have had an interesting winter with lots of rain, good, a little snow also good, and an ice storm, not so good. Lots of damage to clean up after but the iris didn't seem to mind. I still grow some of my older introductions and if you want one that is not listed here, ask as it still might be available. You can email us at larry@lauersiris.com for more information Thank you for your support in the past and have a great iris season.
Thank You,
- Larry Lauer
About Us
Larry & Marcy Lauer
My wife Marcy and I moved to Wilton over thirty-one years ago to find a more peaceful environment for the family and so I would have plenty of room for gardening. It worked! I could hardly get rid of all the vegetables I grew. One day my mother gave me some irises that she had after splitting hers and I was off and running. As luck would have it, noted hybridizer Jim McWhirter moved in next door, started planting his irises and we became fast friends. Jim introduced me to the “real” iris world by taking me to various local, regional and national iris events. We even went to Japan on an iris tour in 1985. He also introduced me to many other hybridizers in Region 14. Among them were Ben Hager and Sid Dubose who were outstanding mentors, and I learned so much from them. Jim and I became partners in CottageGardens from 1986 until 1997 when Marcy and I started Lauer’s Flowers.
I made my first cross in 1985, introduced my first flower, LEMON POP an IB, in 1990 which eventually won the Sass Medal in 1996 and my first TB, OPENING ACT in 1991. The year 2000 was an especially good year for me as I won the Wister Medal for STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (which won the Dykes the following year), the Franklin Cook Memorial Cup at the Dallas Convention for PENNY LANE and the Dr. Loomis Award at the trial gardens in Colorado for SANDY BEACH. I was awarded the Hybridizer’s Medal at this year’s National AIS Convention and ORANGE POP was awarded the Knowlton Medal for border bearded.
In 2008 we moved to Oregon. We found a place in Independence about ten miles west of Salem. It just has one acre and was only to be for a short time until we found a larger place but that never happened. With a much smaller garden I have changed my focus and I’m trying to breed Reblooming varieties.
